Arthur Christmas is a animated film about Santa's good-natured but clumsy son, Arthur, who undertakes an unauthorized mission to deliver a single, missed present to a child before Christmas morning.

Launching a new Christmas myth is always a dicey proposition, as there a number of notes you simply have to hit, while at the same time trying make your film feel fresh and current. Few films have ...

Here’s hoping this movie becomes another family Christmas classic, which it very much deserves. A veddy British take on the “monarchy” of Santa, “Arthur Christmas” is an inventive, sweet-natured ...

Christmas comes early for fans of Aardman Productions, Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton (“Your Sister’s Sister”) and “Spider-Man.” Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire ...

The animated, 3-D Arthur Christmas introduces three generations of St. Nick’s family: Weedy retired Grandsanta (voiced by Bill Nighy, hogging the good lines), the obliviously ineffectual Santa Claus ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When the movie started with a Justin Bieber ...

One thing I learned while writing my holiday film guide “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas” is that there are two kinds of plots in this sub-genre with a tendency to stink on ice: movies about ...